The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-02-06
TRENTON NOTES.
What Is said About Men and Things ut
nj the state Capitol.


TRENTON, Feb 6-Assemblyman S,ud-
dsr and Mr.. Walter again went through the
form of holding Joint meeting ct noon.
Mr.. Scudder presided and Walter made the
necessary motions on his prompting Two
votes were cast for Albeit and the meeting
| adjourned until Monday
The Camden County Surrogate is dead,
and Governor Green wlN appoint his sue
cessor.
| Frank Hubers' re-election to the eharge
Of the Senate bill-room is a merited Tecog-
milton of fitness.
-Libbie Garrabrant, the life prisoned mur-
deress, from Paterson, is faded and her
hair is sprinkled with gray.
The first bill brought up on second
reading in the House was introduced by
| Assem- blyman Noonan.
! Governor Green is credited with being
the most affable and even tempered execu-
tors the State has eyer had.
-SenatorEdwards is accorded places on
the Senate Committees on Revision of the
Laws, and on Municipal Corporations.
The Camden Grand Jurors couldn't
find any ground for indictment in connec-
ton with the alleged Camden frauds.
= 1t is vsry currently rumored around
many days be occupied by q Democrat.
The Trenton Sunday Advertiser" is
authority for the statement that Senator
Moon is not without Senatorial aspirations.
"A gentleman in Trenton, well posted.
said the other day that he believed the I'M
seating of Armstrong would make him
Camden's next representative in the State
Senate.
"A Jersey City man actually wanted to
bet that DR.. Chattle would be the next
United States Senator, but the sllliest idea
of all is that President Freddie will secure
the prize
Some people believe that the labor
votes in the baliotiBg for United States Sen
ator will be split finally, Carroll voting for
Leon Albeit and Donohue for William j.
Sewell.
The Paterson s'Press" declares the
refusal of the Senate to organize to be rev.
dictionary and without precedent even in
the many sharp contests that have arisen
in this and other States.
Assemblyman Dickinson, while he knows
there can be only one result to the Watson
Jones contest, will not neglect his duty to
the G. 0. P. by absenting himself from
any meeting of the election committee.
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posted on the designs of the Republicans,
is authority for the statement that it is not
impossible that the Republicans may yet
be seen voting for Democrat other than
Albeit.
The Sunday Calls sycoPhantic sng-
gestion that Freddy. who sits in the big
plush chair in the State Senate may hook
on 10 the United Safes Senatorship is
positively the m est absurd suggestion we
have yet struck.
Ex-Governor Albeit is entitled to every
Democratic vote in the Legislature, and
also to those of Messrs. Carroll and Dono-
hue. who could never have been elected
had they avowed an intention to oppose
him. Paterson Guardian.
-Assemb'yman Corbin recommends in
letter to the Newark Call" that the Stata
purchase or condemn the water rights of
all the concerns claiming to have water
franchise and herself supply the cities
with decent water 50 urce..
It is said that Oscar Baldwin, the New
ark bank defaulter who was released from
State prison the other day, was interested
in the rubber contract at the State prison
and received 81, 900 per month out of 1t,
during large part of his term of imprison-
ment.
1t must be uncongenial for poet to
lay aside his frenzy and get down to the
unseptimental task of engrossing bills
but if he likes the job we congratulate orr
poet-editorial friend, Scott Snyder, on
having recaptured his old seat in the Sen
ates Engrossing Room.
The Phelps intrigue is being very
shrewdly worked at Trenton, and Mr..
Griggs is reported to be deeply implicated
in it, expecting to obtain the Republican
nomination for Representative from this
Congressional district if there should be
vacancy Paterson Guardian
viii Chamberlain was the mesns of
having two resolutions passed in the House
last Tuesday for the benefit of the newspa-
per men. One provides that the reports
shall be provided with bill files and the
others that they shall have the usual SIS
worth of stationery allotted to each MEM
/ Der.
Last Sunday morning we refrained
| from publishing the story about the late
Col. Garry Ackerson's defalcation because
we did not believe it to be true. In last
weeks Bergen "Index," we read that it is
now believed that the Wortendyke and
the Rose estates are all right and likely the
deficiency in other accounts will be small if
any.
Mr.. Throckmorton has received many
letters from all parts of the State COM
mending the stand he has taken in regard
to the Senatorship. He has also received
many favorable notices from the press be-
cause of it. There is nothing in his posi-
ton that indicates that he will not act with
the majority of the Democratic caucus on
that question when the time arrives
1 Monmouth Democrat.
The Republican press throughout the
State makes great moment of the attitude
of ex-Assemblyman David A. Bell, of
Monmouth, on the Senatorial question.
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